On this 09/01/2025, as usual, we bring you the latest and greatest in the world of anime. From fresh episode releases to new announcements, to exciting upcoming series, weโve got you covered with everything happening in the anime world today. Check out todayโs updates below!
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OUT NOW: “Anyway, I’m Falling in Love with You.” episode 1! Crunchyroll has confirmed an English dub for the series, additional information not yet announced.
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โช “Make It Count” by INI
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โช “Make A Wish” by Marcy
โ Synopsis โ
It’s July 1, 2020. Mizuha, a high school second-year, is having the worst seventeenth birthday ever. She’s missing her chance to get close to the older student she admires, and her parents didn’t even remember that it’s her birthday. Worst of all, there’s a new and unknown infectious disease making the rounds, so all her club tournaments and school trips have been canceled.
She’s convinced that she’ll never have the dazzling youth that she’s always dreamed of… but then her childhood friend, Kizuki, suddenly declares himself a candidate to be her boyfriend.
This is a school youth story about four childhood friends who grew up like family, one being the heroine, Nishino Mizuha, and the four boys she grew up with whom she sees as family.
OUT NOW: “AQUARION: Myth of Emotions” episode 1! Satelight is animating the 12-episode series.
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โ Synopsis โ
The Aquarion, a giant mechanized fighting suit, is humanityโs best weapon against interstellar threats. Human pilots trained and worked together to defeat Shadow Angels, invading Abductors, and kinetic energy monsters over thousands of years. Once again, humanity must turn to the Aquarion. With the fate of the Earth hanging in the balance, will the suit be enough to save mankind?
“SAKAMOTO DAYS” English-dubbed trailer released! Weekly streaming on Netflix begins this Saturday, January 11.
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โ Synopsis โ
Taro Sakamoto was once a legendary hit man considered the greatest of all time. Bad guys feared him! Assassins revered him! But then one day he quit, got married, and had a baby. Heโs now living the quiet life as the owner of a neighborhood store, but how long can Sakamoto enjoy his days of retirement before his past catches up to him?!
“Grisaia Phantom Trigger” will be 13 episodes long! Bibury Animation Studios is animating the series.
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โ Synopsis โ
What was once “Mihama Academy,” a sanctuary for young girls, has now been transformed into a SORD (Special Organization for Research & Development) training school dedicated to fostering talent for national defense. Rena and Maki specialize in firearms, Tohka and Gumi excel at sniping, Chris handles explosives and data processing, and Murasaki is a skilled ninja for intelligence operations. Together, they take on cases too complex for the police or Self-Defense Forces, repeatedly facing dangerous missions. This is the story of these young girls, painted in blood and gunpowder.
“The Red Ranger Becomes an Adventurer in Another World” is listed with 12 episodes!
Episode 1 premieres this Sunday, January 12.
Crunchyroll has confirmed an English dub for the series, additional info not yet announced.
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โ Synopsis โ
Togo Asagaki was the Red Ranger in a heroic Ranger squad. During their final battle against an evil organization, he gave his life to guarantee their triumph. But fate had other plans, and he found himself reborn in an entirely different world. Embracing his new role as an adventurer, he transforms into Kizuna Red and continues his pursuit of justice, helping those in need.
“Vampire Hunter D” 25th anniversary celebrations in Japan:
โผ Revival screenings
For the first time ever, the Japanese-audio version of the movie will screen theatrically as a limited 1-week release.
Prior to this, the 2001 theatrical release in Japan was the international (English audio) version with Japanese subtitles.
โผ HD remaster Blu-ray
On March 26, a Blu-ray containing both the theatrical version (English audio) and the Japanese dub will be released.
This remaster is promoted as being new scans of the original 35mm negatives and will include 5.1ch DTS-HD Master Audio.
โป While this release does include the English audio version, no subtitles are listed.
“The Water Magician” TV anime announced for July, animation production: Typhoon Graphics ร Wonderland!
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[Cast]
Ryo (CV: Ayumu Murase)
Abel (CV: Kazuki Ura)
Sera (CV: Kaede Hondo)
[Staff]
Director: Hideyuki Satake
Series Composition: Jun Kumagai
Character Design: Yuka Kozutsumi
โ Synopsis โ
Ryo is delighted to be reincarnated into the fantastical world of Phi, where he thinks heโll get to live a quiet life learning to use his newfound water magic. Going with the flow here, however, means something very different. Ryo is immediately pitted against the wild lands he winds up in and the slew of deadly monsters that call the remote subcontinent home.
Youโd think heโd forget about taking it easy when heโs stuck fighting for his life, but lucky for Ryo, heโs naturally optimistic, clever, and blessed with the hidden โEternal Youthโ trait. Twenty years pass in the blink of an eye, and each encounter along the way pushes him one step closer to the pinnacle of human magic. Little does he realize thatโs only the opening chapter of his tale. A fateful meeting soon thrusts Ryo to the forefront of history, forever changing the course of his life…
Thus begins the adventures of the strongest water magician the world has ever seenโwho also likes to do things at his own pace!
“One-Punch Man” Hero Visual #11: Superalloy Blackluster / #12: Flashy Flash!
Season 3 is scheduled for this year, studio: J.C.STAFF.
The previously announced “Reincarnated as a Neglected Noble: Raising My Baby Brother With Memories From My Past Life” TV anime adaptation begins in July, animation production: Studio Comet!
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[Cast]
Ageha (CV: Misaki Kuno)
Regulus (CV: Mariya Ise)
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Director: Masafumi Sato
Series Composition: Mitsutaka Hirota
Character Design: Tomoko Miyakawa
Music: Alisa Okehazama
โ Synopsis โ
An empire falling to ruin: The Kio Empire. Living in that empire, is an overweight 5-year-old abandoned by his parents, Prince Ageha. Ageha has memories from a previous life of him living as a Japanese man in another world. He then encounters his younger half-brother, Regulus. Ageha had a vision that Regulus will kill him in the future over inheritance, so Ageha sets out to raise him after Regulus’s mother passed. Once the sparkling and fluffy-haired Regulus cozied up to Ageha, He turned into a doting older brother before he even realized! Enjoy a fantasy story of young brothers managing their kingdom, sometimes involving the gods, as they reform it step by step to bring a better land to the next generation!
